A/N:Laxus has a nightmare from past abuse and the Reader who has wings, comforts him.

I was currently standing in front of the job board, my feathers brushing the floor.

"Hey Nab? What job should I take?" I ask, finger tapping my chin.

"Are you looking for solo or team?" He asks me, looking over the different forms. "This one looks good for a solo, simple enough, mediocre pay, around 2 days. You int-" I cut him off as I see a job request that catches my eye.

"Does this look good?" I ask excitedly grabbing it and showing it to him. It was about a 2 day-long job in a town by the name of Hargeon. The client is paying 700,000 jewel just to take down a forest Vulcan. As I look at it again I notice it is a 2-person job and I sigh.

"I can't do it I guess, it's a 2-person job." Nab looks like he is going to say something but I just give him a look. "When was the last time you went on a job Nab?" His mouth opens to protest but then shuts it and looks back to the board. I giggle and I go to put it back up when I hear a door slam open behind.

"(Name)!" I look behind me to see Master Makarov standing with Laxus, looking at me. My face immediately blushes as I reply. I have had a crush on Laxus for ages, not that anyone knows but he was staring at me so I instantly became self conscious.

"Yes Master?" I reply while adjusting my shirt.

"Is that the Vulcan job request?" I nod and approach him holding it out. Laxus glances at it then sneers and looks away. "Are you going with anyone?" I just shake my head and he nods and if it's possible, Laxus even looks more angry.

"Good! Laxus can go with you then!" He says and quickly turns back into his office. My eyes go wide in surprise and before I can say anything, the door slams shut. Laxus glares at me and walks by.

"Get ready by 5 tonight, I will meet you here." He growls out as he walks by. Surprisingly, that was nicer then usual. He was much nicer when we were younger and we were best friends, but now I was just another weakling in his mind, another memory. I sigh again and I move to the door to go home and pack. It was around 3 last time I checked so I move to the front gate, spread my wings, and take off towards my apartment.

2 hours later, I land back at the guild hall with my backpack that has extra clothes, first aid and other necessities. I start looking around for Laxus until I see him talking with Freed. I walk over swiftly with my head down. I'm usually really loud but when it comes to Laxus, I clam up at random times.

"Um, Laxus, it's uh, 5? Ready to go?" I say with hesitation. I didn't want make him super mad or anything, he could severely hurt someone, that much I know. He nods swiftly and stands up waving a small bit at the Thunder Legion. I look up at him and he seems to tower over me, him being very, huge, I would say. I turn towards the door as he slings his bag over the shoulder. As we exit the hall I make my way to the train station and before I can reach the front gate, Laxus yells to me,

"What are you doing?" I turn towards him and my head cocks to the side.

"What do you mean?" I ask softly. He only glares at me.

"Dragon Slayer here, motion sickness is out to get people like me. We can't take the train." What does he expect us to do? Walk? "I thought you could maybe fly us there or for a tiny bit then go on foot. Okay, I'm drawing the line.

"Laxus, you can't possibly expect me to fly you, of all people, the whole way? No offense, but I'm not that strong." He only sighs loudly and pushes past me again, this time, not muttering a word. I bet he really thinks I'm weak. When we finally get to the train station, Laxus looks very uncomfortable. I giggle under my breath and he throws another glare my way as we sit down.

"How long is the ride?" He sounds tense and looks very pale.

"About two hours." His face drops for a second before it goes back to that normal, passive expression. Suddenly, the train starts moving and he looks ready to barf. I giggle again at him but all he does is fall back into his chair.

"Do you maybe have anything?" He asks me but it sounds jumbled and I realize he must be talking about stopping the motion sickness. I'm about to say no when I remember something. When I go with Gajeel or Natsu on jobs, I mess with their hair and it distracts them. I get up and he gives me a confused look. I walk over to his side of the small compartment and I raise his head and put it on my lap. He looks about ready to yell at me until I put my hands in his hair and I start messing with it and he instantly relaxes, it's almost unnatural. I struggle to hold in a smile at his face. He looks like he wants to melt and the his regular color of his face is back.

This is definitely different then the other two. They just close their eyes and still look a little sick but it helps. Laxus looks completely fine now which slightly shocks me also. What surprises me more is that his eyes drift close and he turns his head towards my stomach a bit and snuggles in a bit. I continue to think why he is so different from the others with this method when I notice my wings. My (color choice) wings had made their way over him like a blanket and they curl around him. If anyone saw us, they would think we are a couple.

Around an hour or more later, I'm flipping through my book, one hand still in his hair. His hair was so soft under my hands, like a feather and I would know. His hair also has an energy to it, not very surprised since he has lightning coursing through his body.

He shifts a bit and the side of his face with his scar is shown. I always wondered how he got it but I never asked. I put my book back in my bag and used my free hand to hesitantly move towards it. My mind raced as my hand came even closer. Should I do this? Before my mind comes up with the logical answer my hand brushes it very softly and to my complete surprise, his whole body shudders and he makes a small noise. I freeze up and retract my hand immediately. He turns over and my wings ruffle as he moves. He smiles in his dream state. His smile makes my heart flutter, it's a tiny little half smile, foreign to his face but fits him so well.

"Hey, (Name)." He says and cuddles in even closer if that's even possible and my eyebrows knit together in confusion. Was he dreaming, about me? I stay still for a couple moments and before I do anything else, the train starts to slow down and stops. I look out the window and seeing it was our stop I slightly shake Laxus. His eyes flutter opens and when he looks at me, he smiles slightly and then his face goes blank and he stands up quickly, back to his angry passive self. I quickly grab my bag and duck my head, like nothing happened but I smirk to myself as I notice the deep blush on his face. We walk off the train, Laxus looking a little sick just being on it even though it isn't moving.

"Did that help?" I ask him as we move to the edges of the town where the forest lies.

"Yeah." He says and his cheeks become a deeper red then before.

"So, good dreams?" I ask and I immediately regret it. Why did I say that?

"Why should it matter to you?" He asks rudely.

"I'm sorry that wasn't nice of me to ask. Forget I said anything." He just looks away and grabs his headphones. When he puts them on I sigh. Why am I always sighing around him? I look back at him but he just seems lost in his own world, he's observing the land scape. We walk for two hours, me sometimes getting an aerial view when he breaks the silence.

"Are you scaring them away with your loud footsteps?" He asks.

"Okay, do you have a problem with me?" I spin around on my heel to look him right in his face and he seems surprised I talked back but quickly hides it with another glare.

"Yeah, I do. You are scaring away every single Vulcan!" He yells.

"Wow, hypocrite much?" I say, crossing my arms. He just seems to get angrier.

"You should know your place, Bird Chick. You are talking to a Dragon Slayer. Most powerful wizard in the guild." I laugh sarcastically at this.

"Bird Chick. Okay then, Sparky. If you are so powerful, how come you got beat by Natsu and Gajeel?" This irks him and before I know it, I'm sent flying back into a tree and my body locks up and I can't move. I can only stare straight ahead as I process Laxus' face and it immediately becomes terrified and he runs towards me. He moves me so my back is against the tree and he looks really freaked out, but after a couple seconds I'm able to move again and a string of apologies leave his mouth.

"I'm so sorry, (Name). There is no excuse for that I'm so sorry, are you okay?" Hearing him say sorry worried me, I was barely hurt, there was the bare minimum of power used when he hit me with a lightning blast.

"I'm fine, it's my fault anyways, I shouldn't have pushed you." I stand up, still a little shaken.

"That doesn't give me a right to hurt you. You were just voicing your thoughts." He stands up also and he looks over my body and I reassure him everything is fine. When his fingers hesitantly go through my feathers to straighten them out, I shudder and then freeze. So this is what it's like on the receiving end of that. Laxus immediately stops what he's doing and before he can question me further, a loud roar is heard and our heads spin to a group of trees and a forest Vulcan emerges.

We nod at each other and we go to attack. I use my wind magic too fight while Laxus obviously uses his lightning. It isn't long before we defeat the Vulcan and we head back to town, the earlier situation on the tip of our tongues but neither of us mentions it. It is completely dark by the time we get back, being almost 11.

"What about that place?" Laxus asks me timidly as he points at a nearby motel. He seemed distracted on the way back, was it because of our fight?

"Yeah, looks good." I nod and we head inside.

"One room please." Laxus asks the old woman behind the counter while pulling out his wallet. I pull out some jewel and I pass it to him and we split the price.

"You have room 14, check out time is 10." She says and thrusting a key at us. I quickly grab it and we head up the stairs to our room. When I unlock the door, I don't know why it surprised me, everything was today. There was one bed but Laxus just looks at me and we both shrug. We were both tired and just wanted to sleep. I put on some plaid pajama pants and a tank top before collapsing into the bed. I didn't want to bother with other things at the moment. Laxus lays down on the other side and immediately falls asleep, he curls up automatically, he seemed scared. I brush this from my mind, I must have been over thinking things and I drift off.

I wake up to a blood curdling scream andI instantly look for the source. I look over and I see Laxus and it sends shivers down my spine. He's sweating buckets and he was curled up all the way with his hands over his head. I instantly put my hand in his hair and started playing with it and his scream subsided. They were tear tracks down his face and I shook Laxus a tiny bit.

"Laxus, wake up. You need to wake up." After about a minute he woke up, eyes wide with fear and he took one look at me and gripped on for dear life, almost squishing me. I brought my wings around to encase him and he settled down some more.

"Laxus? Are you okay?" I ask him. He just looks at me, he seems half there, half not. He shakes his head and cuddles into me. This is nothing like him.

"Do you want to talk about it, we can talk." I ask, my maternal instincts coming in. It broke my heart to see him like this. He nods. I steel myself for what comes next.

"It was dark, it always is. I didn't listen, I came out of my room and he had the, the," he lets out a small sob and digs his face in my shoulder.

"You don't have to tell me if you don't want to?" I didn't want him to tell me anything he didn't want too. He just shakes his head.

"I can't hold it in any longer, it's been 19 years, since I was 4." I nod my head and I listen intently, tightening my hold on him and playing with his hair more.

"He had the whip this time, it was the worst. It would burn, use electricity. When I was young, lightning would hurt me if it wasn't my own since I had a lacrima. He tried to beat it into me." He continued on, "But before he could use it, he was gone and I was holding it and your back was to me. I didn't mean to hurt you! Not ever, not in the forest." He rushes out the last part and all I can do is play with is hair and rub his back.

"You didn't hurt me, I promise. You never could." He looks at me with his gray eyes and the raw emotion I see, it's surprising. And suddenly it all make sense, why he never let anyone in, why he had a closer group, seemed tired all the time.

"We should get some sleep, alright?" He just nods and I go to pull away from him when he tightens his hold.

"Don't leave me, not right now." I give him a small smile.

"I won't, I promise." I kiss his forehead near his scar without thinking but he just seems to want to get closer. My wings encase us like a shell, to protect us from the rest of the world. Last thing I remember was seeing a soft smile on his face.

When I wake up again, it's colder. I look to Laxus' side but I see he's gone. I hear a door open and I turn over and see Laxus walking shirtless, out of the bathroom. I open my mouth to say something but his red eyes and passive face tell me I probably shouldn't. He walks to his bag and pulls on a shirt but not before I notice the multiple scars on his back.

There was bubbly skin from burns and the flesh looked stretched over it and indented lines from having been hit multiple times. It made me want to kill who ever did this as soon as I could. I was guessing it was his father, he wasn't the best man. Did no one else see it? I get up and got ready to travel back home. When I walk out of the bathroom, changed and ready to go, I see Laxus sitting on the edge of the bed just staring at the wall.

"Do y-" he cuts me off immediately.

"We do not talk about last night. Understood? To no one. I was tired and stupid and did not get two rooms. The only other people who know is the rest of the Thunder Legion. That does not mean you can talk to them about it. I told them to ignore it when it happens. They listen." His gaze never moves from the wall as he says this. But I don't listen.

I walk over and hug him and he tenses up and I can feel the energy coming off him in waves.

"I'm never going to leave you, I'm always here to talk. I haven't experienced the same thing but I do know how to listen. If you need a friend, just give me a sign." I say softly in his ear and I kiss his forehead, and back up. I grab my bag and walk to the door and as I look back, I see Laxus is still staring at the wall and there is a single tear track down the side of his face, over his scar. I walk out the door and sit down. He just needs time.

It takes a bit but he walks out and stops next to me and holds out his hand without looking at me. I grab it shyly and we head to the front desk and drop off the key. After that we head to the train station, neither of us were very hungry. We sit down and after we put our bags down, Laxus immediately puts his head in my lap without looking at me still. His cheeks, burning red as I play with his hair. After a couple minutes and the train departs, Laxus speaks up for the first time since that morning.

"I give you permission to be my friend." He says and I chuckle.

"Yeah, that wouldn't stop me if you Sid I couldn't be your friend." I say.

"So that means if there is anything bothering me, I can talk to you?" He says, while looking slightly confused.

"Of course, when ever you need too." I say and swipe the tuft of hair away that hangs over his eyes.

"There's this girl I like, I don't know how to deal with that kind of thing." The question came out of the blue and I hesitate for a moment. My feelings for Laxus didn't disappear over the time span of the job, it actually strengthened. You felt, in a weird way, nice, that he trust you with his struggles.

"Just tell her. Most girls are nice about this kind of thing." I say, staring straight ahead. He let out a noise of approval and he falls back asleep. All I can think is that he sleeps a lot, but it's better then him puking from motion sickness. The time passes quicker this time and we quickly leave the station. Laxus grabs my hand while again, not looking at me but a bright blush dusts his face. I smile and we head back to the guild hall.

As soon as we enter, Laxus let go of my hand and walks to Mira and my smile falters. Was this the girl Laxus liked? Mira was so sweet so I understood how he could so I turn to leave when I heard him yell behind me. He walks back up to me and hands me my share of the payment. I put it away and turn to leave again, giving him a small smile.

"Okay, (Name). There's something I have to tell you." I immediately look at his serious face, giving him my full attention.

"What is it?" I ask.

"This one girl told me to tell someone if you like them so, I wanted to tell you I like you." He immediately places his lips on mine and a rush of electricity runs through my body but in a good way. I slowly melt into the kiss and I hear a holler from somewhere in the room.

"Wooh! Laxus finally found a girl!" I hear, Natsu's distinct voice yells from somewhere and I put my wings up to encase me and Laxus as we both smile into the kiss.